Text: "This is how we found you, babydoll and all, Sunday morning, while everyone else was getting ready for church."
My first attempt at home-made lasagna was a success!!! I wish that I would have taken a picture of it straight out of the oven because it looked beautiful. Just like Stouffer's (which by the way, is the only kind of lasagna I have ever fed my family)! Not only did it look beautiful, but my whole family devoured it! I'm totally adding my lasagna to our regular dinner rotation.
Sooo... I picked Avalyn up from an after-school playdate and this is how she looked!
Grammy came over today, so that I could help her highlight her hair. Now, I am by no means a professional, but I think that it turned out really cute! Lots of all over blondeness! And since there was a ton of hightlighting stuff left over, we decided to have Grammy do my hair. I think my hair also turned out really cute, I really like it. It's a little more stripy than Grammy's hair. It's fun to change up your look every now and then and I haven't done that in a long time. Thanks sooo much Grammy for the fun new hair!!!
Today was picture day at Briley's preschool. I think that her pictures turned out really cute, fake smile and all! Even the group shot, with all of the kids doing something different, just like real life. As you can see Briley is the only girl this year. Which is a flip from Avalyn's 2 years in Preschool, where both years there was just 1 boy. Briley is really loving Preschool, even with all the boys!
Briley's preschool teacher, Miss Shelley, set up a really fun field trip to our local dairy today. I think that the kids really had a good time (except the only GIRL, Briley, who complained the whole time about how stinky it was). We even got to see some newborn cows that were born as recently as that morning. I could not believe how big the newborns were, as a mom all I have to say is "Thank goodness I am not a cow," those babies are gigantic! *(see pictures of kids right up against the fence) And we ended the field trip with some yummy chocolate milk and cookies provided by Shelley. Thanks Shelley, what a fun field trip, (even though it was pretty stinky)!
While we were on vacation in Las Vegas, our good friends, the Abbiss Family, came to visit us. They have 3 kids just like us and the kids are all about the same ages. Avalyn and McKenna are both 5 (ok technically McKenna just turned 6 a week ago), Briley and Theron are both 3, and Shallon and Kairi are 8 months apart. We took all the kids over to Chuck E. Cheese. They were REALLY excited!!! *(see photo #1 "jumping for joy") And they had lots of fun. Plus, it was really nice to see our friends while we are on vacation.
Some Christmas morning pictures: Our stockings all set out, after Santa had delivered his goodies! Greg's new white hat (his old one wasn't quite white any more). The SISTER PRESENTS: Avalyn with her presents from her sisters (Briley - Strawberry Shortcake figurine, Shallon - Tinkerbell puzzle). Shallon with her sister presents (Avalyn - Whale stuffed animal, Briley - Dora Kaleidoscope). No pictures of Briley with sister presents because she wasn't cooperating (Avalyn - Tinkerbell megaphone, Shallon - Disney Princess puzzle). OK and I just have to express my love of the last picture of Shallon, it is by far my favorite Christmas picture! The look on her face is priceless, that is pure joy that only a small child can have. I love it and I'm sooooo glad that I actually captured it on film (or whatever you call it when it's on a digital camera)!
Here is the Severts' Nativity, "acted out" by all 6 grand-kids!
When I was a kid, my brother and I always got to open 1 present each on Christmas Eve. Greg's family had the same tradition. So we have decided to carry it over to our family.
All the kids (minus Shallon) went with their dads (plus Granddad) to the Children's museum. They had lots of fun!!! And the kids did too!
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